Caking in the mud

[BlackCattleRancher]

How do you guys that cake on the ground, continue caking when frost is coming out of the ground or when it warms up in the middle of winter. Seems you could go a good week of sloppy mud and dropping cake in that mud would just waste a lot of feed. Unseasonable warmup here is making cattle ranching miserable.

BCR

 

[kolanuraven]

Are you putting out hay...un rolling rolls? If so, put it on top of the hay

 

[Jassy]

Fortunatly we don't usually have that problem being in the sandhills, we don't get much for mud except in the correls and we don't feed there anyway. I do feed on the hayline though when we have to much snow on the ground...finding clean and dry ground sometimes is a problem, but our ole gals don't let the cake lay on the ground ...they gobble it up! lol

 

[John SD]

Mud?.... Hmmmm.... seems like I remember something about that concept when I was a kid. But I'm a little fuzzy on that.

As I remember water and dirt are the main ingredients to make "mud". I ran the stock tank over this morning, so I think I had the makings of this so-called "mud" for a little while. It just didn't stick around long enough! :twisted: :shock: :wink: :lol:

 

[Sundancer]

Oh you "Sand" people are so blessed! We hit 58 degrees today and there is no end to mud and slop. I simply couldn't feed cows tonight. Would get stuck in the mud with the tractor and bale processor. Only four days ago we were at -6. Not healthy at all. I can identify and sympathize with you, BCR. It is supposed to cool off in two days.